Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark note in an otherwise successful year was the loss of six out of nine championship contests to Yale colleges, leaving the Edward S. Harkness Trophy in the possession of the Elis. Only in Crew, Squash, and Touch Football did the Crimson triumph...
...Mann's faith is an optimistic one, for to him, popular government will certainly triumph over any rule of the select or of Supermen. Democracy is a norm to which men, by their nature, will return. Because it is "rooted in the eternal hunger of the race," it will always reassert itself. Again democracy will triumph because, by its very refusal to concentrate on the production of Supermen, by its humility and criticism, it produces greater men than can Fascism...
...point in The Buccaneers, 16-year-old Nan St. George has been its heroine. Thereafter she shares the limelight with her governess, a cool, prim, middle-aged Englishwoman named Laura Testvalley. Laura decides that, since the girls have no chance in Manhattan, they may succeed in London. Their London triumph is so complete it almost destroys them. Nan becomes the Duchess of Tintagel, discovers that she does not love her husband, falls in love with a young widower, calls her former governess for help. But in the heady sequence of brilliant marriages, Miss Testvalley has also recovered her youth...
Unaware of impending triumph in the long grind to be first to hand in his study card, Dennis was hurried by his adviser early Saturday morning, and arrived in what could hardly be described as a photo finish. Staff members in University C reported that he was "pleasantly surprised...
Paramount and Fenway are showing a Technicolor "triumph" called "Valley of the Giants", which is overshadowed by the entertaining second feature, "Time Out for Murder", starring Gloria Stuart and Michael Whalen. The Fine Arts is continuing for the eighteenth week "Moonlight Sonata", which has the disadvantage of being an English film but the more than compensating advantage of Paderewski. Across from the Yard in Harvard Square the University in featuring "The Texans", a mediocre Paramount picture with Joan Bennett and Randolph Scott, and Stuart Erwin in "Passport Husband." Sunday will bring Harold Lloyd's decrepit but still amusing "Professor Beware...